SA author Joe McKinney scores three-book deal for horror trilogy

It’s like I told Sanford Allen when he shared this good news: Any excuse to trumpet zombies and local authors is a good one. SA author/SAPD homicide detective Joe McKinney has scored a three-book deal for his trilogy about the undead feasting on San Antonio. (And I don’t mean puffy tacos and pan dulce. Ba-doom-CHEESH!) As Allen reports, Pinnacle Books will re-release McKinney’s first novel, “Dead City,” in Sept. 2010 with new cover art and extra material. The next book in the series, “Cataclysm,” hits the following month, and the final book in the trilogy, “The Land of Sand and Thorns,” is slated for summer 2011. Yummy-yum.